Canterbury Active Directory Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Active Directory skills within the Canterbury region with a comparison to our System Software category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Active Directory over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Active Directory
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Addlestone Aylesbury Ayrshire Barking Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Cleethorpes Colchester Colwyn Bay Conwy County Antrim Coventry Cramlington Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorset Douglas Dover Dudley Dunbar Dundee Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Farnborough Feltham Fife Gateshead Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grays Great Yarmouth Greenwich Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hartlepool Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Hove Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Kegworth Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston Llandudno London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton Lutterworth Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Matlock Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Middlewich Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Morecambe Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Shields North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Shields South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Asaph Stafford Staffordshire Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Thurrock Torfaen Trowbridge Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	2	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	4	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	57.14 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£300	£301
% change on same period last year	-0.62 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.03	£18.73
% change on same period last year	-3.75 %
System Software Canterbury
Matching contract IT job ads	7	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£300	-
Average daily rate	£325	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£350	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£321	£325
% change on same period last year	-1.17 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.21	£21.86
% change on same period last year	-3.00 %
Active Directory Kent

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Active Directory
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Active Directory across the Canterbury region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

Active Directory
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Active Directory across the Canterbury region.

Active Directory
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Canterbury region citing Active Directory also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Active Directory.

1 4 (66.67 %) Health 2 3 (50.00 %) Windows 2 3 (50.00 %) Novell 3 2 (33.33 %) Windows XP 3 2 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 3 2 (33.33 %) Windows 2000 3 2 (33.33 %) VB 3 2 (33.33 %) .NET 3 2 (33.33 %) Migration 4 1 (16.67 %) Clustering 4 1 (16.67 %) Exchange Server 5.5 4 1 (16.67 %) Informatics 4 1 (16.67 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 1 (16.67 %) Network Security 4 1 (16.67 %) MS Office

4 1 (16.67 %) UNIX 4 1 (16.67 %) MS Excel 4 1 (16.67 %) LAN 4 1 (16.67 %) WAN 4 1 (16.67 %) DHCP 4 1 (16.67 %) NDS 4 1 (16.67 %) DNS 4 1 (16.67 %) Microsoft 4 1 (16.67 %) Citrix 4 1 (16.67 %) SAN 4 1 (16.67 %) Terminal Services 4 1 (16.67 %) GroupWise

Active Directory
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Canterbury region citing Active Directory also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Active Directory. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (33.33 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 2 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (16.67 %) GroupWise 2 1 (16.67 %) Exchange Server 5.5 2 1 (16.67 %) Exchange Server 2007
Applications 1 1 (16.67 %) MS Office 1 1 (16.67 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 1 (16.67 %) LAN 1 1 (16.67 %) WAN 1 1 (16.67 %) DHCP 1 1 (16.67 %) DNS 1 1 (16.67 %) SAN 1 1 (16.67 %) Network Security
General 1 4 (66.67 %) Health	Job Titles 1 2 (33.33 %) 2nd Line Support 2 1 (16.67 %) Infrastructure Specialist 2 1 (16.67 %) 2nd Line Support Analyst 2 1 (16.67 %) Desktop Support 2 1 (16.67 %) Analyst 2 1 (16.67 %) Support Analyst 2 1 (16.67 %) Technical Support 2 1 (16.67 %) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous 1 1 (16.67 %) Clustering 1 1 (16.67 %) Informatics	Operating Systems 1 3 (50.00 %) Windows 2 2 (33.33 %) Windows 2000 2 2 (33.33 %) Windows XP 3 1 (16.67 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (33.33 %) Migration	Programming Languages 1 2 (33.33 %) VB
System Software 1 1 (16.67 %) NDS 1 1 (16.67 %) Terminal Services	Vendors 1 3 (50.00 %) Novell 2 1 (16.67 %) Microsoft 2 1 (16.67 %) Citrix